She is credited for starting the #metoo movement that shook Hollywood and the corporate world this year, and was named as Time’s Person of the Year on Wednesday.

Ten years ago, Burke started Just Be Inc., a nonprofit organization advocating for sexual harassment and assault victims that first used the term “Me Too” as a way for victims to connect with each other, the New York Times reported.

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Survivors of sexual assault gave speeches during the #MeToo march in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday, November 12, a response to the recent string of sexual assault allegations in the entertainment industry. On Hollywood Boulevard, a podium was set

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The movement didn’t gain steam until October when actor Alyssa Milano took to Twitter to start a conversation showing the magnitude of sexual assault with the hashtag #MeToo.

She tweeted, “Suggested by a friend: If all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote ‘Me too’ as a status, we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem.”

“This is just the start. I’ve been saying from the beginning it’s not just a moment, it’s a movement,” said Burke on the Today Show. “Now the work really begins.”

Thank you EVERYONE!! Especially all of you who rang the alarm when you thought I wasn’t being acknowledged. I couldn’t say anything!! I’m sorry. But I felt every bit of the love. Now the work REALLY begins. #metoo

The five women on the cover represent the millions of “silence breakers” who have changed the way sexual assault victims are seen and reported. Taylor Swift is featured, who won a lawsuit earlier this year against a DJ who groped her. Ashley Judd, who helped start the #metoo movement by sharing her story about Harvey Weinstein, is also on the cover, along with Uber engineer Susan Fowler who is known for taking down Uber’s CEO after writing a blog post about sexual harrassment within the company.

Women and men alike have taken to social media recently to post "#MeToo" to raise awareness for the number of victims of sexual harassment and assault. People were encouraged to tweet the hashtag if they had been victims of these themselves.